Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced that authorities have arrested a suspect connected to the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.
“I’m proud to announce that the FBI has arrested one of the key participants behind the Benghazi attack,” Bondi declared.
“Zubayr Al-Bakoush will now face American justice on American soil. We will prosecute this alleged terrorist to the fullest extent of the law,” she said. “Let this case serve as a reminder: If you commit a crime against the American people anywhere in this world, President Trump’s Justice Department will find you. It might not happen overnight, but it will happen. You can run, but you cannot hide.”
“Hillary Clinton famously once said about Benghazi, ‘What difference, at this point, does it make?’ Well, it makes a difference to Donald Trump. It makes a difference to those families,” Bondi added. “And 14 years later, it makes a difference to law enforcement, who made the difference in this case.”
Pirro explained that Al-Bakoush was charged by complaint in 2015, although it was sealed for 11 years. An unsealed indictment charges him with the murders of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, State Department employee Sean Smith and CIA contractors Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, as well as a charge for the attempted murder of State Department Special Agent Scott Wickland.
Al-Bakoush landed at Andrews Air Force Base at 3 a.m. local time on Friday.
On September 11, 2012, the attack on the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, left four dead after assailants with AK-47 rifles, grenades, and other weapons stormed the site, shooting, setting fires, and breaking into buildings.
